Visionaire 572010Visionaire 2010Founded in 1991 as a collection of artworks and images hand-assembled by a group of friends in a one-room apartment in New York City, Visionaire has grown into one of the most highly sought-after fashion and art publications in the world. The New Yorker has characterized Visionaire magazine as "a creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers and thinkers," adding "it's a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill." For this latest issue, 52 curators (including Nancy Spector, Beatrix Ruf, Klaus Biesenbach, Louise Bourgeois, John Baldessari, Ugo Rondinone, Maurizio Cattelan, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Dakis Joannou, Mario Testino, Marc Jacobs, Guan Yi, Christian Boros, Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, James Franco, Kate Moss, Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron) have selected seven artists. Each artist contributes one image for a total of 365 images by 365 different artists, assembled as an electronic calendar that displays one image for each day of the year. This is Visionaire's first electric plug-in issue featuring art on a high-definition screen. Visionaire 57 is produced in collaboration with Smart, in anticipation of the Smart electric car to be launched in 2010, and as a part of Smart's ongoing support of urban creativity.